USPTO Patents Application 10002572

%\ United States Patent and Trademark Office

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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APPLICATION NO.

FILING DATE

FIRST NAMED INVENTOR

ATTORNEY DOCKET NO.

CONFIRMATION NO.

10/002,572

11/01/2001

Bruce L. Johnson

10012284-1

4291

7590 12/22/2005

HEWLETT-PACKARD COMPANY
Intellectual Property Administration
P.O. Box 272400
Fort Collins, CO 80527-2400

EXAMINER

WALLERSON. MARK E

ART UNIT

PAPER NUMBER

2626

DATE MAILED: 12/22/2005

Please find below and/or attached an Office communication concerning this application or proceeding.

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PTO-90C (Rev. 10/03)

Advisory Action
Before the Filing of an Appeal Brief

ADDlication No

10/002,572

AoDlicant^s)

JOHNSON ET AL

cxaniiner

Mark E. Wallerson

Art Unit
2626

*-7/ie MAILING DATE of this communication appears on the cover sheet with the correspondence address -

THE REPLY FILED 31 August 2005 FAILS TO PLACE THIS APPLICATION IN CONDITION FOR ALLOWANCE.

1, □ The reply was filed after a final rejection, but prior to or on the same day as filing a Notice of Appeal. To avoid abandonment of
this application, applicant must timely file one of the following replies: (1 ) an amendment, affidavit, or other evidence, which
places the application in condition for allowance; (2) a Notice of Appeal (with appeal fee) in compliance with 37 CFR 41.31; or
(3) a Request for Continued Examination (RCE) in compliance with 37 CFR 1.114. The reply must be filed within one of the
following time periods:

a) Q The period for reply expires months from the mailing date of the final reaction.

b) The period for reply expires on: (1 ) the majling date of this Advisory Action, or (2) the date set forth in the fined rejection, whichever is later. In no

event, however, will the statutory period for reply expire later than SIX MONTHS from the mailing date of the final rejection.

Examiner Note: If box 1 is checked, check either box (a) or (b). ONLY CHECK BOX (b) WHEN THE FIRST REPLY WAS FILED WITHIN TWO

MONTHS OF THE FINAL REJECTION. See MPEP 706.07(f).
Extensions of time may be obtained under 37 CFR 1 .136(a). The date on which the petition under 37 CFR 1 .136(a) and the appropriate extension fee have
been filed is the date for purposes of determining the period of extension and the corresponding amount of the fee. The appropriate extension fee under 37
CFR 1 .1 7(a) is calculated from: (1 ) the expiration date of the shortened statutory period for reply originally set in the final Office action; or (2) as set forth in (b)
above, if checked. Any reply received by the Office later than three months after the mailing date of the final rejection, even if timely filed, may reduce any
earned patent term adjustment. See 37 CFR 1.704(b).

NOTICE OF APPEAL

2. n The Notice of Appeal was filed on . A brief in compliance with 37 CFR 41.37 must be filed within two months of the date

of filing the Notice of Appeal (37 CFR 41 .37(a)), or any extension thereof (37 CFR 41 .37(e)), to avoid dismissal of the appeal.
Since a Notice of Appeal has been filed, any reply must be filed within the time period set forth in 37 CFR 41.37(a).
AMENDMENTS

3. n The^proposed amendment(s) filed after a final rejection, but prior to the date of filing a brief, will not be entered because
They raise new issues that would require further consideration and/or search (see NOTE below);
They raise the issue of new matter (see NOTE below);

(a)
(b)

(c) LJ They are not deemed to place the application in better form for appeal by materially reducing or simplifying the issues for

appeal; and/or

(d) [ZI They present additional claims without canceling a corresponding number of finally rejected claims.

NOTE: . (See 37 CFR 1.116 and 41.33(a)).

4. EH The amendments are not in compliance with 37 CFR 1.121. See attached Notice of Non-Compliant Amendment (PTOL-324).

5. □ Applicant's reply has overcome the following rejection(s): .

6. □ Newly proposed or amended claim(s) would be allowable if submitted in a separate, timely filed amendment canceling

the non-allowable claim(s).

7. n For purposes of appeal, the proposed amendment(s): a) □ will not be entered, or b) □ will be entered and an explanation of

how the new or amended claims would be rejected is provided below or appended.
The status of the claim(s) is (or will be) as follows:

Claim(s) allowed: .

Claim(s) objected to: .

Claim(s) rejected: .

Claim(s) withdrawn from consideration: .

AFFIDAVIT OR OTHER EVIDENCE

8. □ The affidavit or other evidence filed after a final action, but before or on the date of filing a Notice of Appeal will not be entered

because applicant failed to provide a showing of good and sufficient reasons why the affidavit or other evidence is necessary
and was not earlier presented. See 37 CFR 1.1 16(e).

9. □ The affidavit or other evidence filed after the date of filing a Notice of Appeal, but prior to the date of filing a brief, will not be

entered because the affidavit or other evidence failed to overcome ah rejections under appeal and/or appellant fails to provide a
showing a good and sufficient reasons why it is necessary and was not earlier presented. See 37 CFR 41 .33(d)(1 ).

10. □ The affidavit or other evidence is entered. An explanation of the status of the claims after entry is below or attached.
REQUEST FOR RECONSIDERATION/OTHER

11. 13 The request for reconsideration has been considered but does NOT place the application in condition for allowance because:
See Continuation Sheet.

12. M Note the attached Information Disclosure Statement(s). (PTO/SB/g^'fT^-1449) Paper No(s).

1 3. □ Other: .

MARKWALLERSON
PRIMARY EXAMINER

Mark E. Wallerson
Primary Examiner
Art Unit: 2626

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
PTOL-303 (Rev. 7^5)

Advisory Action Before the Filing of an Appeal Brief

Part of Paper No. 20051212

Continuation Sheet (PTOL-303)

Application No

Continuation of 1 1. does NOT place the application in condition for allowance because: The rejections made in the Office Action mailed
on 7/1/05 are maintained. Applicant submits that Kinjo does not disclose printing content received from a remote device on the print
media. The Examiner disagrees. Kinjo discloses that words to be synthesized on the print media may be received from a remote source
(column 2, lines 49-62, column 2, line 63 to column 3, line 6, column 9, lines 38-44, column 10, lines 31-67, column 11, lines 1-30,
column 12, lines 44-67). Kinjo also determes a location for the printing of the routing information (column 15, lines 31-40). With respect
to claim 10, Baum discloses generating a stamped electronic copy of the document (print) including the identified information and other
content already on the document and transferring the stamped copy to a remote device (column 9, line 59 to column 1 1Jine 6). .

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